The Besz Dispenser - This Week's Rant

For the week of July 28th, 2000

Evolution: not just for monkeys anymore

Summer is finally upon us here in Southern Ontario, and I've learned so much already. I've learnt that leaving Toronto in rush out extends a forty-five minute drive into a two-hour drive. I've learnt that when you're dating someone, girls in a tight halter-top and a nice-looking navel increase in number and attractiveness. And that updating your website without a computer is next to impossible. It's a good thing that all I need is notepad, otherwise, I'd be screwed until September.

So, as I mooch computer and internet time from my workplace (a rather large newspaper, I might add), I figure I'll comment this time around about how incredibly stupid people get here in the big city.

My first problem is with the inner-city youth of the land. Why are they shooting each other on buses and in front of coffeehouses? What draws them to do such a thing as mugging 13-year-olds for bikes and insults? I've said it before and I'll say it again: WE ARE NOT THE U.S. We don't need to be this angst-ridden here. We have a good life here up north. We have health care and a pretty stable economic. We're rated #1 as far as standards of living, and yet we fight amongst ourselves for someone calling us a name?

And what is with the domestic violence as of late? Men lately have been snapping at the drop of a hat and going on killing sprees, and I don't get it. Is this not the new millennium? Did we not progress as a race? Can we not? Somehow no matter how religious or moral or humane we become, the more primal and aggressive and territorial we stoop. We as a race are sliding down an evolutionary ladder and the more we progress, the less gets solved.

What is the solution? Well, maybe it's our ideals, our aims. Maybe all that bullshit about benevolent governments and moral religious leaders is starting to sour in our unconsciousness. Maybe we've grown up to the point where we don't need them, or just that the old power structures don't cut it for us anymore. I believe it. I don't understand why the government feels the need to treat us like children who can't figure out what's right for ourselves. Granted, for many that's a correct assumption, but I think the main problem is that we have not been thinning out the less powerful. We help them come along. If a drug user wants to OD let them. If a woman is willing to sleep with men for money let her sell it. If a guy has unprotected sex and gets a STD, that's his problem for being stupid. Let's stop walking through life like we don't know what to do with it. And maybe, just maybe, we'll stop killing each other and move that one step on that evolutionary ladder.

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